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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 22: Social and Cultural Boundaries in Pre-Modern Poland

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 22: Social and Cultural Boundaries in Pre-Modern Poland

Paperback

Series: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Book 22

JudaismAnthropologyEastern European History

ISBN10: 1904113370
ISBN13: 9781904113379
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: Dec 3 2009
Pages: 510
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Boundaries--physical, political, social, religious, and cultural--were a key feature of life in medieval and early modern Poland, and this volume focuses on the ways in which these boundaries were respected, crossed, or otherwise negotiated. It throws new light on the contacts between Jews and Poles, including the vexed question of conversion and the tensions it aroused. The collected articles also discuss relations between the various elements of Jewish society--the wealthy and the poor, the educated and the uneducated, and the religious and the lay elites, considering too contacts between Jews in Poland and those in Germany and elsewhere. Classic studies by such eminent scholars as Meir Balaban, Jacob Goldberg, and Moshe Rosman provide a foil for new research by Hanna Zaremska and David Frick, as well as Adam Teller, Magda Teter, Elisheva Carlebach, Jürgen Heyde, and Adam Kaźmierczyk. Taken together, the contributions on this central theme help redefine the Jewish history of pre-modern Poland.

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